selected ufo cases

All Cases: Sorted by Most Recent First

May, 1940 - Boulder Mountain, Montana, United States

At an isolated location miner Udo Wartena saw a large disc shaped object about 35 foot high and over 100 feet across hovering above a meadow. The object resembled two soup plates, one inverted over the other and stainless steel in appearance. Wartena then saw a staircase unfold from the bottom of the craft. Out of it came a man who asked him if the ship could take some water. The man then invited Wartena inside the object. Wartena accepted and met another man inside that told him they had come from a distant planet and were 609 years old.
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Source: Warren Aston, UFO Magazine March/April 1998
ID: 1032

1933 - Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Canada

Witnesses saw "a large oval shaped object that was domed at the top and slightly rounded on the bottom. It was supported by legs and from a central door- way, or hatch, about a dozen figures could be seen going up and down a ladder-like stairway. The Occupants appeared to be slightly shorter than the average man, and were all dressed in what appeared to be silver colored suits or uniforms. All appeared to be wearing helmets or ski caps, and all were busy running around ""repairing,, the craft. "
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Source: John Brent Musgrave (FSR Vol 22 # 6 1976)
ID: 1143

Case Type: StandardCase
Features:
Humanoid/Occupant, Physical Trace

1930 - Alaska, United States

The picture was taken in the early 1930s by the sender's grandfather, who lived in Alaska. The entitiy was first seen when the grandfather was on his way to a lake. He chased the entity until he got close enough to take this one picture. It was some four months before the photograph was developed, being in in a remote, sparsely populated area. The sender received the picture from his grandfather only last week. His grandfather died the day after giving him the photo, and relating his story.
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Source: UFOCasebook.com (B.J. Booth, editor)
ID: 1109

Case Type: RawReport
Features:
Alien Photograph, Humanoid/Occupant

February, 28, 1904 - Pacific Ocean off San Francisco, California, United States

Three members of the crew of the USS Supply, at 6:10 a.m. local time, sighted an echelon formation of three objects which appeared near the horizon below clouds, moving directly toward the ship. As they approached, the UFOs began soaring, rose above the cloud layer, and were observed climbing into space, still in echelon. The lead object was egg-shaped and about the size of six suns, and the other two were smaller and round.
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Case Type: SummaryReport
Features:
Multiple UFOs, Water-Related

August, 18, 1783 - Windsor Castle, England, United Kingdom

This illustration depicts a sighting that occurred at 9.45pm on the evening of August 18, 1783 when four witnesses on the terrace of Windsor Castle observed a luminous object in the skies of the Home Counties of England: "An oblong cloud moving more or less parallel to the horizon. Under this cloud could be seen a luminous object which soon became spherical, brilliantly lit..."
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Source: UFOs at Close Sight / others
ID: 488

Case Type: SummaryReport

1034 - Europe,

A rare typeset book from 1493 contains what may be the earliest pictorial representation of a UFO. The book Liber Chronicarum, describes a strange fiery sphere, seen in 1034, soaring through the sky in a straight course from south to east and then veering toward the setting sun.
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Source: The Bible UFO Connection
ID: 497

Case Type: SummaryReport

October, 11, - Atlantic Ocean,

In 1492, Christopher Columbus and Pedro Gutierrez while on the deck of the Santa Maira, observed, "a light glimmering at a great distance." It vanished and reappeared several times during the night, moving up and down, "in sudden and passing gleams."
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Source: 'The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus'
ID: 487

August, 7, - Basel, Switzerland

A 16th century woodcutting depicts this scene in which dark spheres were witnessed hovering over the town of Basel, Switzerland in 1566. The spheres appeared at sunrise, 'Many became red and fiery, ending by being consumed and vanishing', wrote Samuel Coccius in the local newspaper on this date.
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Source: 16th century woodcutting and newspaper (credit: UFOs at Close Sight)
ID: 485

Case Type: StandardCase
Features:
Multiple UFOs

April, 4, - Nuremberg, Germany

At sunrise on the 14th April 1561, the citizens of Nuremberg beheld "A very frightful spectacle." The sky appeared to fill with cylindrical objects from which red, black, orange and blue white disks and globes emerged. Crosses and tubes resembling cannon barrels also appeared whereupon the objects promptly "began to fight one another." This event is depicted in a famous 16th century woodcut by Hans Glaser.
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Source: Various sources
ID: 486

Case Type: StandardCase
Features:
Multiple UFOs

March, - United Kingdom

Edmund Halley, the astronomer who discovered Haley's comet, could recall two accounts involving unidentified crafts. His first experience was in March of 1676, when he saw a, as he said, "Vast body apparently bigger than the moon."
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Source: The Bible UFO Connection
ID: 492

329 BC - Central Asia,

Alexander the Great records two great silver shields, spitting fire around the rims in the sky that dived repeatedly at his army as they were attempting a river crossing. The action so panicked his elephants, horses, and men they had to abandon the river crossing until the following day.
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Case Type: StandardCase
Features:
Famous Person, Witness Photo

593 BC - Cheber River, Chaldea (in modern-day Iraq),

Of all the UFO accounts in the Bible, the one mentioned most often is Ezekiel's Wheel. One of the passages reads: "This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like chrysolite, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel." (Ezekiel 1:16) The following is a passage by passage analysis of Ezekiel chapter one that is based on the work of NASA engineer Josef Blumrich.
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